Originally posted by: Glenlivet
I'm positive that to anyone under 25 this is going to sound so lame, but it is true. I found the perfect way to avoid speeding tickets years ago. I'll share it with everyone here: I just drive at or below (Weather conditions dictating) the posted speed limit! Works like a charm. I have a stress-free trip, not scanning the road for possible speed traps and hiding spots. My license has been clean for many years now.
Let me share this one tip with you: You don't save that much time at all by speeding. There. I said it, and in my great youth I'd have considered this statement just the stupid sort of propaganda that the old fogies think the young are dumb enough to swallow, but I have found in my life it is true.

I am a paramedic. My partner and I swap off driving and attending on alternate days, and I've been at this career for 23 years. We are permitted to exceed posted speed limits and to bypass traffic controls while travelling with the emergency lights and siren activated. I have considerable experience in travelling the same roads both at legal posted speed limits and at a speed considerably faster and believe me, there isn't much difference at all until the total distance travelled is greater than fifty miles, and at that, if you are going the speeds that we often do, the risk of being cited becomes a virtual certainty.
A local ski hill that is 78 kilometers away is a frequent run, and given the winding highway and hills, and the fact that regardless our freedom to exceed the posted limit we still drive in a safe and prudent manner, the time saved over this run by travelling 'code three' is about five minutes. Whoopee.
If you're transporting an imminent breech birth then it's worth it, but otherwise what's the point?
I've seen a lot of badly injured and dead people that must have been looking for that saved five minutes.
Don't be one, please. I don't want that sort of job security.